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The technical term for this is "copying". You may have heard of it.
It is a subject of such long technical standing that many do not consider
it worthy of detailed documentation.
Distcp effects a similar process and can be modified to combine the input
files into a single file.
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.0.4/distcp.html
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Barak Yaish <barak.yaish@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you please attach HOW-TO links for the alternatives you mentioned?
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> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Harsh J <harsh@cloudera.com> wrote:
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>> Yes, via the simple act of opening a target stream and writing all
>> source streams into it. Or to save code time, an identity job with a
>> single reducer (you may not get control over ordering this way).
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>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Is it possible to merge files from different locations from HDFS
>> location
>> > into one file into HDFS location?
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>> --
>> Harsh J
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